..S. adults according to age, sex, race/ethnicity, country of birth, education, income, and poverty-income ratio within and between the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-1994) and NHANES 1999-2004...

Periodontal treatment may control glycemic status among diabetic patients

..These findings are consistently observed for both the overall STI and its between-group component across gender, race/ethnicity, country of birth, survey respondent's education, income and poverty-income ratio...

Self-rated general and oral health in New York City adults: assessing the effect of individual and neighborhood social factors

..S.-born counterparts to have asthma. The findings of this study underscore the importance of inquiring about nativity status when studying asthma among U.S. children and adolescents...

Diabetes in the dental office: using NHANES III to estimate the probability of undiagnosed disease

L N BorrellDepartment of Epidemiology, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USAJ Periodontal Res 42:559-65. 2007

..Because 60% of Americans see a dentist at least once per year for routine, nonemergent, care, it is reasonable to propose that the dental office can be a healthcare location actively involved in screening for unidentified diabetes...

Race/ethnicity and self-reported diabetes among adults in the National Health Interview Survey: 2000-2003

..We examined the prevalence and determinants of ISH in this age group using the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and made comparisons using data from NHANES III (1988-1994)...

The dental office visit as a potential opportunity for diabetes screening: an analysis using NHANES 2003-2004 data

..The data were also used to determine whether at-risk individuals with periodontitis visited a dental professional recently, so that they could avail themselves of this opportunity for screening, if offered...

Luisa N BorrellDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, School of Dental and Oral Surgeons, Columbia University, 722 West 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USAAm J Public Health 96:332-9. 2006

..We used data from the Dental Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study to examine whether individual- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic characteristics were associated with periodontal disease...

Education and diabetes in a racially and ethnically diverse population

Luisa N BorrellDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, School of Dental and Oral Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USAAm J Public Health 96:1637-42. 2006

..We used data from the National Health Interview Survey (1997-2002) to examine the association between education and the prevalence of diabetes in US adults and whether this relation differs by race/ethnicity...

Periodontitis is associated with cognitive impairment among older adults: analysis of NHANES-III

..These associations were similarly positive in Whites but not significant. Substance use may be an unhealthy coping response to perceived unfair treatment for some individuals, regardless of their race/ethnicity...

Neighbourhood environments and mortality in an elderly cohort: results from the cardiovascular health study

Ana V Diez RouxDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USAJ Epidemiol Community Health 58:917-23. 2004

..It has been postulated that neighbourhood conditions are related to the health of the elderly population but longitudinal studies are rare and confounding by individual level variables remains a possibility...

Self-reported hypertension and race among Hispanics in the National Health Interview Survey

..Further studies of the health consequences of discrimination will require investigation of both the upstream determinants of discrimination and the downstream mechanisms by which perceived discrimination affects health outcomes...

Effects of race, neighborhood, and social network on age at initiation of injection drug use

Luisa N BorrellDepartment of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USAArch Environ Health 59:250-5. 2004

..Neither income nor education was associated with concentrations of DDE. The authors concluded that maternal socioeconomic indicators may influence the effects of exposure to PCBs among African-American pregnant women...

Neighbourhood food environment and gestational diabetes in New York City

..Future research, including validity studies, on the neighbourhood food environment, obesity during pregnancy and gestational diabetes is warranted...

Associations of neighborhood problems and neighborhood social cohesion with mental health and health behaviors: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Sandra EcheverriaDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USAHealth Place 14:853-65. 2008

..Results for neighborhood problems were robust to the use of aggregate measures but results for social cohesion generally were not. Future work should determine the health effect of modifying specific features of the neighborhood context...

..Although racial and ethnic differences in healthcare have been extensively documented in the United States, little attention has been paid to the quality of health care for the foreign-born population in the United States...

Racial identity among Hispanics: implications for health and well-being